Publications (31)
Explain Like I'm 5 or Whatever I Choose: Evaluating the Interactive Potential of Language Model Responses
Indu Panigrahi, Tal August
A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung +33
From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding AI Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy
Yijun Liu, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman +1
Automatic Detection of Research Values from Scientific Abstracts Across Computer Science Subfields
Hang Jiang, Tal August, Luca Soldaini +2
Breaking the Curse of Knowledge: Designing Personalized Jargon Support for Real-Time Online Meetings
Yifan Song, Yijun Liu, Wing Yee Au +3
From Words to Widgets for Controllable LLM Generation
Chao Zhang, Yiren Liu, Lunyiu Nie +3
TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable
Ziheng Huang, Tal August, Hari Sundaram
Mathfish: Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula
Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang +3
Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency
Michelle Huang, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Koustuv Saha +1
SocialVeil: Probing Social Intelligence of Language Agents under Communication Barriers
Keyang Xuan, Pengda Wang, Chongrui Ye +3
Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari +8
Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience
Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith +1
Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures
Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, Maria Antoniak
The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations
David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li +1
Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents
K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke +6
On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance
K. J. Kevin Feng, Tae Soo Kim, Rock Yuren Pang +3
APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization
Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy +2
MultiSessionCollab: Learning User Preferences with Memory to Improve Long-Term Collaboration
Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August +1
Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks
Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue +6
Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation
Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh +3
All That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text
Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano +3
Qlarify: Recursively Expandable Abstracts for Directed Information Retrieval over Scientific Papers
Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August +2
Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication
Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak +4
Who Plays Which Role When? Communication Role Dynamics for Peer Recognition and Team Performance Prediction
Yifan Song, Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Brian P Bailey +1
Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements
Ziheng Huang, Robin Kar, Hari Sundaram +1
Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis
Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August +1
FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays
Yijun Liu, Yifan Song, John Gallagher +2
The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52
Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization
Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal August
Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing
Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg +3
Uncertainty in Action: Confidence Elicitation in Embodied Agents
Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed +4